Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Sometimes attrib. to "Immermann."
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the kingdom of heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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